Victorian collection of quirky, but immensely skilled and detailed images all of which have a "mortise" or area of white space for a typographic message. All of these will have been in use in the Victorian period with authentic trades advertising their services and wares with these "outer" graphics.
Typical images : typewriters with blanks, elephants with banners, bottles of wine with blank labels, sunbursts, easels, jackdaws and crows, books, clowns, girls, boys, elegant women and Victorian gentlemen, post boys, writers with quills, judges holding paperwork, hands with signs, pointing hands, clocks, objects. Lively, comic and engaging illustrations.
Illustrations: 670 black and white line illustrations
Author: Dover
Size: A4
Format: Paperback with CD
Copyright: permission Free
ISBN 13: 9780486990644
ISBN 10: 0486990648
